The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-01
TALK ABOUT MEN.
Information and Gossip Regarding Persons
About Whom Things Are incidentally Said.

Jason B. Brown, who manages" Green Smith,
is a man of considerable force. In the case of
the Senator from Jennings, M Brown must be
given credit for having done fairly well with his
subject considering the unpromising material he
had to work upon. Dir. Brown, with his great
natural endowrents. might have BEEN had some
of the smaller virtues been able to take hold upon
such coarse fiber, an honored leader in his party.
AS it is, his depredations have been confined to
jackson county and the political emouments
that Democratic stronghold can bestow. He has
long had congressional aspirations, but the other
counties of the district have put up perpetual
quarantine against him. Mr.. Brown is not as
rude Of speech as he was some fifteen years ago,
and his manners have greatly improved In
the Legislature of 1871 he was the Senator from
jackson, and was looked upon as young and
rising statesman. 1t was thought, when the dia-
mond should be cut, that it would show clear
facets, and be diamond of the first water. 1t
was in the Legislature of 1871 that the famous
~Burson case came up. When the evidence was
being heard, Senator Brown made the statement
that he, for one of the committee, would report
in favor of Mr.. Burson and that two other Demo
cratic men bers with him would vote to give
Senator Burson his seat. This voluntary state
ment was strengthened by Senator Brown saw
ing that he would deserve to be denounced on
the floor of the Senate 'as lying, periured viii
lain if he didn't stand by his words Senator
Brown was Immediately whipped in by his Dem
ociatic colleagues, and vehementiy opposed the
seating of Mr.. Burson. Col Asbury Steele,
grand old man and a stanch Republican, made
a speech in which, transfxing the young Sena-
tor with his piercing eye, he denounced him,
qoting to him his very words. 1t was q scath-
ing arragnment as those who heard it still re-
member
Warren G.. Sayre, the Representative from
Wabash county. as Speaker of the House of
Representatives has thus far shown on every
occasion, and the perpexities have been mauy,
that the Republicans have put the right man in
the right place. He is rather below the medium
height. always smoothly shaven-not a vestige
of beard is suffered TO appear on his face, and,
being earsighted, the benevolent expression of
his countenance is further heightened by spec
tacles. He is cool, clear thinking man of bust
ness, an able and adroit PARLIAMENTARY and
never loses his head. He is native of the
county he represents, having been born there
July 20, 1915. His ancestry is English and long
| lived. His paternal grandmother and grand
| father died few years ago, each having passed
their ninety-f year. Mr.. Sayres father and
mother are both yet living at Wabash in excel
lent health, aged respectively. seventy
one and sixty nine years. Mr.. Sayre
|
Wabash graduating al Union College. New
York, in 1865. By profession he is lawyer. He
/ enjoys good practice and stands in the front
rank. He accepts the charge made by his Dem
| ocratic opponents that he has been in Office all
his life, with extreme good nature. He says he
| really couldn't help it, that he got married bel
fore he was twenty-one years old and had to do
| something. When twenty five years old he was
| appoiEt ted school examiner Of Wabash county,
holding that Office until 1868 when he was
| elected Mayor of Wabash This Office he held UNI
til May, 1876 In 1880 Mr. Sayre was elected to the
State Senate in 1884 to the House. and again to
the House in 1886. He studied law with the Hon.
John U. Petit, and afterwards became his
partner. He has praeticed law eighteen years.
During the last three or four State campaigns he
has surprised speakers from abroad as well AS
his home people by his thorough acquaintance
in the county He knows every farmhouse in
| the county every voter, and sometimes it has
been said that he not only knows every man,
woman and child in Wabash but every horse
| and dog. He is most entertaining talker, full
of anecdote, and always sready and good
natured. At the hotel he is always the center of
a crowd Of listeners. Democrats as well as Re.
puhlicans admit his ability not only as legis
lator but as a ready man of business. He, him
self, has frequently said that if he has any am
bition, it is to assist in the legislation of the
State, and that he would rather be among the
first in the Indiana Legislature than among the
last in Congress.